me (violin, piano, cornet, stuff); Jackie Walduck/Corey Mwamba (vibraphone, mallet kat); John Edwards (double bass); Thebe Lipere (percussion)
CARDBOARD WHALE:
Julie Kjær (alto sax, flute); me (violin, cornet); Roland Bates (keyboards); John Edwards (double bass); Paul May (drums)
Influences
include: Cannonball & Nat Adderley, Hans Arp, Svend Asmussen, Fred Astaire, Albert & Donald Ayler, Hugo Ball, Billy Bang, Mr Benn, Billy Bennett, Quentin Blake, Eldred Blatty, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Tycho Brahe, Ole Bull, Captain Beefheart, Leonora Carrington, Cheburashka, Gloria Coates, Bob Cobbing, Ornette Coleman, Peter Cook, Arthur Cravan, Donald Crowhurst, cuckoos, Fred Delius, Eric Dolphy, Franz Drdla, Gus Elen, Duke Ellington, P.H. Emerson, Max Ernst, Fingerbobs, the Flumps (especially Pootle), George Formby, George Gamow, geese, Bob Graettinger, Percy Grainger, Edvard Grieg, Sofia Gubaidulina, Alois Hába, Fergus Hall, Wilbur Hall, Patrick Hamilton, Knut Hamsun, Rondo Hatton, Paul Hindemith, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gerard Hoffnung, Henrik Ibsen, Brian Irvine, Charles Ives, Tove Jansson, Billy Jenkins, Leroy Jenkins, Spike Jones, Boris Karloff, Daniil Kharms, Roland Kirk, Yusef Lateef, William Lawes, Michel Legrand, György Ligeti, Peter Lorre, René Magritte, Samuel Morse, David Munrow, Conlon Nancarrow, Gérard de Nerval, nonsense, Norway, Flann O'Brien, Leo Ornstein, Parliament, Hermeto Pascoal, pelicans, Penge, Art Pepper, Phrygia, Harold Pinter, Dudu Pukwana, Raymond Queneau, W.V.O. Quine, Raymond Roussel, Michel Sampson, Erik Satie, Kurt Schwitters, Raymond Scott, Stuff Smith, Eddie South, spoonbills, Carl Stalling, John Stevens, Sun Ra, John Taylor (the Water Poet), tea, Ernest Thesiger, Lennie Tristano, Edgard Varèse, Remedios Varo, Boris Vian, Louis Wain, Mal Waldron, Anton Webern, xenharmonic music, Eugène Ysaye (won't let me use the diaeresis), Frank Zappa, Zebedee.
Sounds Like
asinine ninths.
"The Magic Roundabout meets Psycho" - Mark Lockheart
Born early in Lewisham, where I enjoyed a comfy incubator until a visiting boffin suspected that I had a perforated colon and had me whisked to Great Ormond Street Hospital to have a chunk removed. When I eventually got to go home (Beckenham), it was not as cosy as the incubator.
A violin hung on a picture hook in the study. Today it is mine (the violin, not the hook). I learnt the piano (from gnomes) and the three Rs (from my mum), and played in the street in a donkey costume. Then I went to Bromley Rd Infant's School. When the headmistress asked who wanted to be a Brownie, I was the only boy with his hand up. I never got to be one, and nowadays the uniform is rubbish. At Worsley Bridge Junior School I raced through violin exams, took up tapdancing, and appeared in a ballet (as the sole survivor of the Mary Rose, covered in real seaweed). At Dulwich College I was made to relearn the violin because I had never been taught vibrato. I sang in choirs, fiddled in orchestras and formed bands like Satan's Goats and The Purple Groovys [sic] for which I wrote lots of tunes (inspired by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and Albert Ayler), and for which my mum knitted purple hats. We only had one or two rehearsals and never gigged. Outside school, I played in my brother Roland's bands, including Blood, Blood & Blood; Funky Red Bag (my first paid gig); Crazy People Stuff; the Freaky Peasants Orchestra... On leaving school, I went straight to Nottingham and got a BA in 'Creative Arts' by playing with mousetraps and composing outlandish music. I assembled a jazz quintet, The Supreme Pancake. After our only gig, John Stevens encouraged me to buy a trumpet and "just blow the sh*t out of it, Dylan!" So I did. As Geoffrey Sick I played with the A Band and some of its spin-offs, and made numerous home-recordings. In 1997 I returned to London to help Django to paint a house red, and joined Billy Jenkins's Blues Collective. The following year I assembled Waiting On Dwarfs.
The many & varied bands with which I play include "the A Band", Bitten By A Monkey, the Blues Collective, Burch & Bates, Cardboard Whale, the Flea-Pit Orchestra, Folysshe Noyse, the Ladywoodsman, Liquorice Fish, Moldvarp, Pipe-Rack, the Real Lowdown, Shelf Unit, and Waiting On Dwarfs.
We used to be called "Mumrik" that was looking for a singer and now we finally found a singer and the band name became STM since we are working together at a distance of 6000miles from Leeds, UK to Kyoto, Japan. We have uploaded 3 songs now. Check out how it works.
Club Integral @ Whitechapel Gallery, 18th December 2009.
Featuring music from Lotus Pedals, Nobodies, MayMing, Boycott Coca-Cola Experience and Jack Shirt. + DJ Chris Cornetto and projections from Jaime Rory Lucy of Rucksack Cinema
Lotus Pedals: - "Gorgeous live music from the supremely strange Lotus Pedals, who remained on stage throughout the show...shambolic, bold and beautiful...offers truly unique rewards." Beccy Smith - British Theatre Guide.
Dylan - really enjoyed your virtuoso performance with the orchestra. shame the light was so low - it might be easier to take photos in a coal mine! maybe you could suggest it?
Hats off to lab rats is fantastic. love the arrangement,and especially the recording, Felt like 'points of departure' was a person being accosted in the street by a rubber chicken wielding, bearded person.
Hi Dylan! I just clicked on the links to listen to ya noo toons! Top hole stuff as per!
(Because of the capricious nature of the spaceplayer, I just 'accidentally' heard "Asinine Ninths" and "Ladies On A Bus" simultaneously - sounded really good! But that's just me...)
